"The Best of the Pink Floyd The Best of the Pink Floyd, also issued as Masters of Rock, is a compilation album of early Pink Floyd music, concentrating on singles and album tracks from 1967 to 1968. Later editions titled ""Masters of Rock"" were released in 1974 in France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, to capitalise on the success of ""The Dark Side of the Moon"". It is one of the ""Masters of Rock"" series of budget EMI compilations with identical titles, each volume for a different artist. Two different sleeve designs were used: one (by Herman Baas) based on"
"The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built on ideas explored in Pink Floyd's earlier recordings and performances, but without the extended instrumentals that characterised their earlier work. A concept album, its themes explore conflict, greed, time, and mental illness, the latter partly inspired by the deteriorating health of founding member Syd Barrett, who left in 1968. Developed during live performances, Pink Floyd premiered an early version of ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" several"
"Jethro Tull, Rush, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s, but had mixed critical acclaim and the punk movement can be seen as a reaction against its musicality and perceived pomposity. Nevertheless, Pink Floyd's 1973 release, ""The Dark Side of the Moon"", was an immediate success, remaining in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988, with an estimated 50 million copies sold. It is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. It has twice been remastered and re-released, and has been covered in its entirety"
"involvement."" Throughout March 1973, ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" featured as part of Pink Floyd's US tour. The album is one of the most commercially successful rock albums of all time; a US number 1, it remained on the ""Billboard"" chart for more than fourteen years, selling more than 45 million copies worldwide. In Britain, the album peaked at number 2, spending 364 weeks on the UK chart. ""Dark Side"" is the world's third best-selling album, and the twenty-first best-selling album of all time in the US. The success of the album brought enormous wealth to the members of"
"of the European leg of their 1972 world tour and again in January 1973, Pink Floyd performed with the Roland Petit Ballet. The set list for which their portion of the ballet was choreographed to was ""One of These Days"", ""Careful with That Axe, Eugene"", ""Obscured by Clouds"", ""When You're In"", ""Childhood's End"" and ""Echoes"". 1973 saw Pink Floyd go on two relatively short tours of the US, one in March to coincide with the release of ""Dark Side of the Moon"" and a later one in June. Sandwiched between them were two nights at London's Earl's Court on 18"
"considerably modified, to be more keyboard-heavy, though not extended, as in all earlier performances. This version is included on ""Pulse"". Waters performed it in his 2006–08 ""The Dark Side of the Moon Live"" tour. Any Colour You Like ""Any Colour You Like"" is the eighth track from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, ""The Dark Side of the Moon"". It is an instrumental written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, making it one of three tracks on the album that Roger Waters did not receive writing credit for, the last Pink Floyd track that Waters had"
"The Final Cut (album) The Final Cut is the twelfth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was first released on 21 March 1983 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records and on 2 April 1983 in the United States by Columbia Records. It was the band's last album to feature founding member, bassist, and songwriter Roger Waters, who left in 1985; it is also the only Pink Floyd album for which Waters alone has writing credits, and the first not to feature keyboardist Richard Wright. As such, ""The Final Cut"" is sometimes viewed as a ""de facto"""
"group's catalogue: ""Pink Floyd were nothing if not masters of texture, and ""Meddle"" is one of their greatest excursions into little details, pointing the way to the measured brilliance of ""Dark Side of the Moon"" and the entire Roger Waters era."" Credits adapted from sleeve notes. Meddle Meddle is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released on 31 October 1971 by Harvest Records. It was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971. The album was recorded at a series of locations around London, including Abbey Road Studios and Morgan Studios. With"
"The band made their live debut in May 2018 in front of an invited audience at Dingwalls in London, playing a selection of Pink Floyd material released before their 1973 album ""The Dark Side of the Moon"". This was followed by three small shows at The Half Moon, Putney and European tour in September 2018. In 2016, Mason curated the Pink Floyd boxset, ""The Early Years 1965-1972,"" which documents the pre-""Dark Side of the Moon"" (1973) era of psychedelia and experimentation and the band replacing guitarist and frontman, Syd Barrett with David Gilmour. The boxset contains much live material from"
"The Wall The Wall is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released as a double album on 30 November 1979 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records and in the United States by Columbia Records. Bassist and songwriter Roger Waters conceived the album as a rock opera during Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh Tour, when his frustration with the audience became so acute that he spat on them. Its story explores Pink, a jaded rockstar character that Waters modeled after himself and the band's original leader Syd Barrett. Pink's life begins with the"
"of the overwhelming chart success of both ""The Dark Side of the Moon"", which reached #1 in the US in late April, #2 in the UK, and the US-released single ""Money"", the nature of Pink Floyd's audiences changed in June 1973. David Gilmour said of the change ""It was 'Money' that made the difference rather than 'The Dark Side of the Moon'. It gave us a much larger following, for which we should be thankful. ... People at the front shouting, 'Play Money! Gimme something I can shake my ass to!' We had to get used to it, but previously"
"40 million copies worldwide. It was continuing to sell over 8,000 units every week as of 2005. According to Pink Floyd biographer Glen Povey, ""Dark Side of the Moon"" is the world's second bestselling album and the United States' 21st-bestselling album. Waters produced thematic ideas that became the impetus for the Pink Floyd concept albums ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" (1973), ""Wish You Were Here"" (1975), ""Animals"" (1977) and ""The Wall"" (1979)—written largely by Waters—and ""The Final Cut"" (1983)—written entirely by Waters. He referred or alluded to the cost of war and the loss of his father throughout his"
"Any Colour You Like ""Any Colour You Like"" is the eighth track from English progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, ""The Dark Side of the Moon"". It is an instrumental written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, making it one of three tracks on the album that Roger Waters did not receive writing credit for, the last Pink Floyd track that Waters had no part in writing while he was still a member, and the last Pink Floyd studio track credited to Mason until ""The Endless River"". The piece itself features no lyrics, and consists of a"
"during ""Time"", and Dorothy balancing on a tightrope fence during the line ""balanced on the biggest wave"" in ""Breathe"". David Gilmour and Nick Mason have both denied a connection between the two works, and Roger Waters has described the rumours as ""amusing"". Alan Parsons has stated that the film was not mentioned during production of the album. Pink Floyd Additional musicians Production Design Informational notes Citations Bibliography The Dark Side of the Moon The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 1 March 1973 by Harvest Records. It built"
"to the US for a second visit. Accompanied by the Soft Machine and the Who, it marked Pink Floyd's first significant tour. In December of that year, they released ""Point Me at the Sky""; no more successful than the two singles they had released since ""See Emily Play"", it would be the band's last until their 1973 release, ""Money"". ""Ummagumma"" represented a departure from their previous work. Released as a double-LP on EMI's Harvest label, the first two sides contained live performances recorded at Manchester College of Commerce and Mothers, a club in Birmingham. The second LP contained a single"
"Festival. Due to the overwhelming chart success of both ""Dark Side of the Moon"", which reached #1 in the US in late April, #2 in the UK, and the US-released single ""Money"", the nature of Pink Floyd's audiences changed in June 1973. They used to play at theaters and auditoriums but in this tour they played at Stadiums and large arenas. On 4 November 1973, Pink Floyd played two shows at London's Rainbow Theatre to benefit musician Robert Wyatt formerly the drummer of Soft Machine, a band they'd played with in their UFO Club days. While at a birthday party"
"2002, and Quadruple Platinum on 10 September 2007. The compilation spans the career of Pink Floyd from their first single ""Arnold Layne"" in 1967, through to ""High Hopes"", the final track from their 1994 studio album ""The Division Bell"". Four of their albums—""More"", ""Ummagumma"", ""Atom Heart Mother"" and ""Obscured by Clouds""—are not represented whatsoever, though multiple tracks from ""Atom Heart Mother"" and ""Ummagumma"" were planned to appear on the compilation. Each of the 26 tracks fades from one to the next with no break in the music, courtesy of longtime producer/engineer James Guthrie, to help recreate the concept album feel"
"Dark Side of the Moon Tour The Dark Side of the Moon Tour was a concert tour by British rock band Pink Floyd in 1972 and 1973 in support of their album ""The Dark Side of the Moon"". There were two separate legs promoting ""Dark Side of the Moon"", one in 1972 before the album's release and another in 1973 after its release. Playing 93 shows in 1972, the most until 1994, Pink Floyd debuted the live performance before its release not of a song but a whole album. The original title was ""Eclipse"", then ""Dark Side of the Moon"
"US. Since 1995, the new edition changed the title to just Music from the Film More (US title: Music from the Motion Picture More). This was the last of three Pink Floyd albums to be released in the United States by the Tower Records division of Capitol Records. The 1973 US reissue was released on Harvest Records. Although the CD restores the original United Kingdom title in all countries, it is represented differently on the spine (""Music from the Film"" More) and label ""More"". For the Pink Floyd Records 2016 re-issue, the name reverted to Soundtrack from the film More"
"Meddle Meddle is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released on 31 October 1971 by Harvest Records. It was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971. The album was recorded at a series of locations around London, including Abbey Road Studios and Morgan Studios. With no material to work with and no clear idea of the album's direction, the group devised a series of novel experiments which eventually inspired the album's signature track, ""Echoes"". Although the band's later albums would be unified by a central theme with lyrics written entirely by"
"Saucerful of Secrets"" (1968), ""More"" received mixed reviews from critics. ""More"" is a psychedelic rock soundtrack album which contains some acoustic folk ballads, a genre that appeared sparsely on Pink Floyd's later works. It also contains some of the band's ""heaviest"" recordings, such as ""The Nile Song"" and ""Ibiza Bar"", as well as several instrumental tracks, featuring their experimental and avant-garde approach. This is Pink Floyd's first full album without founding member Syd Barrett, who was ousted from the group in 1968 during the recording of ""A Saucerful of Secrets"". It is one of only three Pink Floyd albums to"
"a prism spectrum, representing the band's lighting and the record's themes. ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" produced two singles: ""Money"" and ""Us and Them"". The album topped the ""Billboard"" chart for a week, and remained on the chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. Following a change in how ""Billboard"" counts sales in 2009, it re-entered the chart and has since appeared for over 900 weeks. With estimated sales of over 45 million, it is Pink Floyd's bestselling album and one of the bestselling worldwide. It has been remastered and rereleased several times, and covered in its entirety"
"Atom Heart Mother Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released by Harvest on 2 October 1970 in the UK, and by Capitol on 10 October 1970 in the US. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England, and was the band's first album to reach number 1 in the UK, while it reached number 55 in the US, eventually going gold there. A remastered CD was released in 1994 in the UK and the United States, and again in 2011. Ron Geesin, who had already influenced"
"was performed live during Pink Floyd's European tour in late 1972 and at a few shows in March 1973 on their next North American tour. The live versions usually featured a fairly long instrumental section not found in the studio version, with an exception being the last version played on 10 March 1973 at Kent State University, when they stuck to the studio arrangement. The live versions were also performed in F-sharp minor, a step higher than the studio version (E minor). Childhood's End (Pink Floyd song) ""Childhood's End"" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1972 album ""Obscured by Clouds""."
"More (soundtrack) More is the first soundtrack album and third studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 in the United States by Tower Records. It was the band's first album without any involvement from former band leader Syd Barrett, and is a soundtrack for the 1969 film of the same name, which was primarily filmed on location on Ibiza and was the directorial debut of Barbet Schroeder. Unlike its predecessors ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"" (1967) and ""A"
"Obscured by Clouds Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, based on their soundtrack for the French film ""La Vallée"", by Barbet Schroeder. It was released in the United Kingdom on 2 June 1972, and a few weeks later in the United States, by Harvest Records, reaching number 6 and number 46 respectively. A single, ""Free Four"", was issued in the US only. The album was something of a stopgap for the band, who had already started work on ""The Dark Side of the Moon"", and was recorded in two sessions"
"Pink Floyd Sound, later the Pink Floyd Blues Band and by early 1966, Pink Floyd. By early 1966, Barrett was Pink Floyd's frontman, guitarist, and songwriter. He wrote or co-wrote all but one track of their debut LP ""The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"", released in August 1967. Waters contributed the song ""Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk"" (his first sole writing credit) to the album. By late 1967, Barrett's deteriorating mental health and increasingly erratic behaviour, rendered him ""unable or unwilling"" to continue in his capacity as Pink Floyd's singer-songwriter and lead guitarist. In early March 1968 Pink"
"The Division Bell The Division Bell is the fourteenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States. The second Pink Floyd album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, ""The Division Bell"" was written mostly by guitarist and singer David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright; it features Wright's first lead vocal on a Pink Floyd album since ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" (1973). Gilmour's fiancée, novelist Polly Samson, co-wrote many of the lyrics, which deal"
"re-released in 2008 on the Lyrita label. The choir also participated in many opera recordings for Decca and RCA, featuring artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, Janet Baker, Joan Sutherland and Kiri Te Kanawa. In 1970, Alldis directed his choir in the recording and the first performance of Pink Floyd's prog rock album ""Atom Heart Mother"". In 1973, he directed the choir in the Westminster Abbey performance of Duke Ellington’s ""Third Sacred Concert""—a recording that was to be the penultimate one made by the great bandleader. He also conducted the London Philharmonic Choir and brass section in the recording"
"Speak to Me ""Speak to Me"" is the first track on British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, ""The Dark Side of the Moon"", on which it forms an overture. Nick Mason receives a rare solo writing credit for the track, though recollections differ as to the reasons for this. Mason states that he created the track himself, whereas Richard Wright and Roger Waters stated the credit was a ""gift"" to Mason to give him some publishing income (subsequently regretted by the latter, following his acrimonious departure from the band). A live version is included on ""Pulse"". The song"
"which was released 3 June 2016. ""More"" received mostly negative reviews from critics. ""The Daily Telegraph"" was favorable towards the album, while ""AllMusic"" provided a mixed response. ""MusicHound"" and ""Rolling Stone"", however, were less positive with the former giving the album a rating of one out of five. More (soundtrack) More is the first soundtrack album and third studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 in the United States by Tower Records. It was the band's first album without any"
"working with Pink Floyd, including the making of this album from his point of view. Taken from sleeve notes Pink Floyd Additional musicians Production Footnotes Citations Sources Atom Heart Mother Atom Heart Mother is the fifth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was released by Harvest on 2 October 1970 in the UK, and by Capitol on 10 October 1970 in the US. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, England, and was the band's first album to reach number 1 in the UK, while it reached number 55 in the US, eventually"
"Fearless (Pink Floyd song) ""Fearless"" is the third track on the 1971 album ""Meddle"" by Pink Floyd. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's ""best of"" album, """". The song's slow tempo and mellow acoustic sound bear similarities to some of the other tracks on the first side of the album. David Gilmour and Roger Waters composed the song on guitar using an open tuning in G major taught to Waters by former member Syd Barrett. Near the beginning and at the end of the song, a field recording of fans in Liverpool's Kop singing"